Your true romantic stories

ah ladies i feel in the mood for some romantic stories!

tell me (and all) how u met ur husband/partner...and how u knew he was the "one"


come on dont be shy -i havent seen muffin man at the park lately and need some romance in my life!

Sorry for the long read... he he he

And oooo, who is muffin man, do tell. I am new here.

Edited by hollyb

Eh I don't go about telling my story very often coz it's quite cheesy, but since you asked !

Thanks to good ol' modern technology, I met my hubby through a website. I was not originally looking for something long term (although you can always hope), I really just wanted to get OUT, as I was living with my mum after having bolted from a *really* bad relationship (all the way in Rotovegas). Anyway, without really intending to, we actually first met in a pub on Valentines Day (2005), and just had a few drinks and talked about the usual first date stuff ! I was really impressed though, to me at least he was dressed all smartly in his business clothes, and opened a tab at the bar so I wouldn't have to worry about paying for anything. We talked for ages actually, but I thought I might have scared him a bit coz I reckon I did most if not all of the talking LOL He was very sweet though, and even brave enough to buy me a rose from one of those guys that walk around with them in a basket selling at restaurants and stuff. I didn't find him overbearing at all, which was really good, but more importantly something 'clicked'.

We met again two days later for a movie and dinner, which was really lovely - BUT - I found a little awkward to handle coz I think I had a UTI at the time and felt really gross every time I needed to pee !

We had been talking a lot online and on the phone even before we met, but it became every day very quickly.

Mum was hesitant as always, but that's just what my mum is like - I now know she loves him like her own son, because in the past she has thrown bigger tanties over less with other guys I'd gone out with !

The first weekend we spent together was after a month or so, he asked me to his house (the place we're in now), and I was just all "WOW" lol because it was huge ! He was still really down to earth but anyway... not actually the point.. I was jobless at the stage but looking, went home after the weekend to continue the hunt, and come Monday morning a delivery guy showed up with THE most beautiful bouquet of roses you have *ever* seen - I wish I'd taken a photo, coz the wrapping was really flash and they were in a giant box and everything.

About the jobless thing, I think what told me he was a keeper was even in the early days, how supportive he was of me when I was feeling tired and vulnerable and stressed out - and then there to celebrate right along with me when I got offered two jobs at once !

I think I must have moved in after only about three months together, since I was spending so much time with him anyway, even on weeknights.

We got engaged a month or so later I think, in early June - and actually kept it a secret for the folks for a while LOL But they ended up taking it really well.

As y'all know we didn't plan an "early" wedding, but things simply happened that way - so we married a year to the day we met as well, Valentines Day 2006.

As for baby, yes it was a surprise, but a completely happy one ! We both knew we wanted to have kids early on, but theoretically weren't planning to start trying properly for a while yet. Mind you, we weren't always careful, so there ya go

Actually, I am even more proud that he didn't bolt when we found out about baby, I think maybe somewhere really deep down I was worried he might - but god only knows why I thought that !? I know he is scared, but I'm scared too, and it's a good sort of scared if you know what I mean !! LOL I think most first time parents would get that ? He's even also survived almost a month in Canada with me and meeting my crazy family, and that says alot too LMAO

Put it this way - I have never been happier, and had you found me a year and a half ago as miserable as I was, I never would have thought all of this was possible






And oh wow. Um, sorry about the novel !! Hehehe.

Edited by jax

Awwwwww see now this thread is going to be a sure-fire way to make me cry !!

I don't have the big romantic storey at all. I was at teachers training college, and it was getting close to new years to see in the new mellenium. All but one of my friends were going to Tauranga, and the one friend that wasn't begged me to go to leigh with her, her boyfriend, and all his male workmates (she didn't want to be the only girl). We all had a great time and sometime around 2am Mike and I got together. we spent the rest of the night talking (and other stuff ) and then we all left the next day, no numbers exchanged.

A few weeks later it was arranged that we would all go up again, I had to get 3 shifts of work which would normally be impossible but somehow managed, and off we went. The first night we only talked till around 6am, the second day, around 3pm I decided to go for a nana nap and he followed. I had made myself comfortable in a bed and next thing I know he was joining me, we talked and other stuff and then slept till the next morning. I do remember waking up as he was snuggling into me and kissing my forehead and I thought, yes I have found my man.

3 years later we were engaged, nothing romantic there, I asked him one night late in bed, 364 days later I came home from work to find him dressed up holding a single red rose and he asked me to spend the rest of my life with him, I cried, he cried and this time I said yes.
We are now married and I couldn't be happier!

See, it's funny how a lot of magazines and things these days are on about the evils of online dating, but like anything, with the good there will always be bad - I think in theory because it is 'new / different' a lot of people are still afraid of it not being as legit as meeting someone IRL or something. I reckon you can just as easily meet a real loser at the pub, or through friends, as you can online !

And I am LOVING these stories, romantic or otherwise ;) And it seems like getting married a year after you meet isn't so unusual after all LOL A few people I knew were a bit shocked when we told them that's what we'd ended up doing, but I don't care

The whole internet preconception of "weirdo's" is rather sad as like you say Jax it is only the negative stories that seem to get out. If you put it into proportion there are probably more bad experiences by meeting people at the pub.

Roger is still pretty sceptical about revealing how we actually met because of the fact that there is a bit of a stigma with the online thing.

I on the other hand am "loud and proud" about how we met because it has been the most positive experience for me.

I know so many people who have successfully met people through RSVP in Sydney that i am a real advocate for meeting this way.

Ohh, and Roger is 1 year older than me.

on the age thing.. I'm 29 this july (ARGH) and hubby is 37 in Nov - My sugar daddy *snigger*

hehe

I met my husband on a car site lol

I had been flirting with him for awhile and he was a novice in the dating scene as he had only sorta just become single since breaking up with his psycho gf of 4 years, she was so bad she even roped him into a house lol

I was chatting with him online and decided that i would come down to wellington to visit some friends and meet up with him, but being a guy he didnt know i was keen on him, well he didnt notice i was flirting with him lol and he ended up at a mates party (21st) and went home with this chick (who actually turned out to be my bridesmaid lol) they dated for awhile, but i still came down to wellington to meet everyone and he said he was just attracted to me and couldnt stop thinking about me, we texted and emailed non stop for about 2 months while he was still with his gf haha, he found out from a mate that she was cheating on him so he text dumped her lol didnt think she was worthy enough of being dumped in person or even on the phone because of what she had done lol

Anyhow he asked me out that same night and that was that lol He proposed to me in a drunken state at a kareoke bar lol and i moved down to wellington another month later, we got married on 10th December 2005 which was about 2.5 years later. We have planned this little girl for about 1 year and are so excited

So yeh that was my story lol pretty random and a bit days of our lives but yeh lol

Here is a pic of us at our wedding from December 2005

Hello,

I have been sifting around this message board and I couldn't resist posting in here...

Caitlyns mum - I love the muffin proposition. How could anyone resist that?

I met my fiance 4 years ago when we both worked together at a museum. He was project managing the construction of a new gallery and I was a tour guide type person while studying at university. He was married to someone else at the time and I was seeing someone so having feelings for each other was not an option. Not to mention the 16 year age gap, pfft, what am I, perverted?

..so for a year there was lots of awkward interactions concerning disarticulated moa skeletons and blown lightbulbs...this usually involved silly grinning slightly TOO much and awkward pauses in the conversation with lingering silent patches.

His disfunctional marriage fell apart a year after we met (sadly he had married very young after his girlfriend of 4 months fell pregnant). We got together soon after, I felt very uncomfortable about the age gap and his 'baggage', but there was NO denying the fact we were crazy insane mad keen on each other, nothing felt more right than being together.

So we moved in together then on to Wellington with nothing, we were unemployed, deep in debt but totally in love. Looking back I don't know how we did it but we've been together for 3 years now. Getting married some time in the future and going to TTC in around Sept this year.

So I don't know if that is particularly romantic, but it's what happened to me!